The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 89

I will not only pay his debts but, if he dies, the cost of his burial also.

Who acts: I, stranger · What happens: not pay, die, cost, bury · To what, where: debts, cost, burial

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, stranger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 pay	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 pay	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 pay	advmod
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 pay	advmod
5	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 debts	nmod:poss
7	debts	debt	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pay	obj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 dies	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 but	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 dies	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dies	nsubj
12	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pay	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cost	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cost	det
15	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dies	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 burial	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 burial	nmod:poss
18	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cost	nmod
19	also	also	ADV	_	12 dies	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not pay	future	I	stranger's debts	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Asset
2	die a condition, not said to happen	present	stranger	the cost of stranger's burial	tree rules
3	cost			stranger's burial	nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient
4	bury		stranger		nom burial «event transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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